AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1918, Page 6

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

GERMAN MORALE WEAKENING. New York, June 14. The Herald's Paris correspondent lias secured documentary proof that the German leaders know they cannot win the war, even if they take Paris and Bordeaux. The German morale i? weakening and the health of the people is alarming physicians, who recently had a conference at Heidelberg and protested that the starvation conditions would lead to Germany's doom. The people are under nourished, and the infantile mortality is 08 ner cent. r Tlie British, air raids on Cologne, Karlsruhe, and Mannheim caused a panic. The lines of refugees were miles long. Tlie realisation of the extent of the American shipping output is finally dissipating the hopes of victory.—A.us. N.Z. Cable Assoc. TROUBLE OVER FRANCHISE REFORM. Amsterdam, June 14. The rejection by the Prussian Lower House of Franchise Reform for the fourth time is causing widespread bitterness and threatens the disruption of the National Liberal and Roman Catholic Centre Parties. The attitude of the Government, which promised to stand or fall by the equal franchise issue, is awaited witli growing interest. WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES. Washington, June 14. Official fresh dispatches from France say that the German press is pessimistic about the situation in the United States. The newspapers say that President Wilson hopc3 to crush the German elements in the United States, and will succeed. All German schools are closed, and German papers suppressed. After the war German commerce will be unable to enter the United States. Steamship companies will not be allowed to have docks or shipyards. It will be the end of German trans-Atlantic commerce. Germany's European victories will in a measure be balanced by the losses in America.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. RIOT AND LOOTING AT LEMBERG. Berne, June 14. There were serious riots at Lemberg on Saturday. A huge crowd looted the provision shops and military wagons. The police were powerless and the military were called out. There was an enormous number of arrests. "Hie authorities asked for 5000 additional soldiers to keep the peace. The situation continues serious.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.